⁷ I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

¹² Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

²⁴ But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Gospel of the grace of God.

¹ Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

² looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

¹⁸ This charge I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;

¹³ Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

¹⁴ I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

²⁴ Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

²⁵ Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

²⁶ I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,

²⁷ but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

²³ Buy the truth, and don't sell it: Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

⁸ "I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn't deny my name.

²⁰ Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

²⁵ As John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'

⁶ I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

³⁴ Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

²⁸ But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it."

¹⁵ That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.

¹⁰ Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

¹⁴ That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.